Bitcoin heads to US midterms as research says dollar 'closing in' on a market top

Bitcoin BTC stayed little astatine the Nov. 7 Wall Street unfastened arsenic the time earlier U.S. midterm elections opened to level equities performance.

BTC/USD 1-hour candle illustration (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView

Crypto wobbles connected FTX woes

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/ USD nearing $20,600 astatine the clip of penning — a three-day low.

Volatility was expected astir the midterms and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) people for October aboriginal successful the week.

An further hurdle successful the signifier of controversy implicit trading level FTX added to the market’s acold feet, with commentators wary of unnecessary harm to growth.

“This full happening is incredibly atrocious for the industry, and particularly for retail,” fashionable trader and expert Pentoshi summarized.

“Retail is the 1 who pays for it erstwhile warfare is waged. But it tin besides extremity up with unintended consequences. Unfortunate to see.”

Bitcoin had headed southbound overnight amid comments from Changpeng Zhao, CEO of largest planetary speech Binance, successful which helium confirmed that the speech would beryllium ridding itself of FTX’s in-house FTT token.

William Clemente, co-founder of crypto probe steadfast Reflexivity, offered a metallic lining successful the signifier of accrued worth for decentralized exchanges (DEXs) going forward.

“Similar to however the mismanagement of hazard from centralized crypto lenders earlier this twelvemonth laid retired the bullish lawsuit for DeFi, this centralized speech play is besides laying retired the bullish lawsuit for DEXs,” helium tweeted, referring to the Terra LUNA debacle and associated repercussions.

A look astatine the apical 10 cryptocurrencies by marketplace headdress showed mixed show connected the day, with 24-hour losses heaviest for Solana (SOL), down 12.4%.

Back connected Bitcoin, trader Il Capo of Crypto stayed adjacent to an existing mentation of $21,500 marking a section apical to come, which would beryllium followed by much terrible downside.

“21500 and nuke. Do it,” helium wrote connected the day.

That mentation included a people macro debased of $14,000, successful stark opposition to different forecasts, which called for $30,000 wrong weeks.

Analyst: DXY "key to everything"

Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index were meantime unmoved up of the midterms.

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The U.S. dollar scale (DXY), engaged attempting a reprieve from last week’s losses, circled 110.5 astatine the clip of writing, incapable to find bullish momentum.

Precising probe into macro markets, Raoul Pal, laminitis and CEO of Global Macro Investor, called dollar weakness “the cardinal to everything close now.”

“We’re not wholly convinced that we can’t marque a last propulsion higher towards 117 but we’re closing successful connected a top,” the probe portion added.

U.S. dollar scale (DXY) 1-hour candle chart. Source: TradingView

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